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Graduate Students
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Ph.D. Students (post-comps)
Tim Best
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
Dissertation: Destruction and Reorganization of Douanes during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Eras
Research Interests: The Growth of Absolutism, Old Regime Privilege and Politics, French Revolutionary Wars, History of World Commerce, The Art of Smuggling
Jason Bieber
Ph.D. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Creswell
Dissertation: Civil-Military Relations in Imperial Germany
Research Interests: World War I, World History, History of Warfare
Rob Bird
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Doel
Dissertation: Reframing Arctic History during the Cold War: Science, Empire, and Colonialism in Comparative Atlantic Contexts from the 18th Century to the Present
Research Interests: History of Science, Atlantic World, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, Geosciences
Christine Caney
Ph.D. candidate, 2004-
Major Professor: Upchurch
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Christopher Day
Ph.D. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Jonathan Deverse
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: McMahon
Dissertation:
Research Interests: French Revolution
Bill Edmonds
Ph.D. candidate, 1996-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Cindy Ermus
Ph.D. candidate (ABD), 2010-
Major Professor: McMahon
Dissertation: The Peste of Provence in the Atlantic World
Research Interests: 18th-Century France & Spain, History of Science & Medicine, Enlightenment, Atlantic World
Tim Fitzpatrick
Ph.D. candidate, 2004-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
Dissertation: Waterloo
Research Interests:
Abe Gibson
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Davis
Research Interests: environmental history, history of science, Native American history, World War II, public history
Yanela Gordon
Ph.D. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: M. Jones
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Jonathan Grandage
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Frank
Dissertation: Becoming Seminole: The Formation of Florida Seminole Identity, 1858-1936
Research Interests: Native American and Environmental history
Christopher Griffin
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Grant
Dissertation: U.S. Veterans After World War II
Research Interests: World War II, Veterans, Intermarriage, U.S. Immigration
Chris Gunn
Ph.D. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Grant
Dissertation: The Turkish Response to The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), 1975-1990
Research Interests: Modern Turkey, the Caucasus, the eastern Mediterranean, southeastern Europe and the Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires
Jennifer Henderson
Ph.D. candidate, 2004-
Major Professor: Gray
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Shane Hockin
Ph.D. candidate, 2006-
Major Professor: McMahon
Dissertation: Origins of the Modern Atheist in Britain and France
Research Interests: 18th-century Europe, Religion and Politics, Atheism
Erica Johnson
Ph.D. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Rafe Blaufarb
Dissertation: "The Revolution from Within: White Abolitionists and the Revolution in Saint-Domingue"
Research Interests: French Colonial History, Race and Identity
Rob Karnisky
Ph.D. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: J. Jones
Dissertation: The White Panther Party
Research Interests: U.S. in the 1960s, Radical movements, Counter-culture
Kevin Kokomoor
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Frank
Dissertation: Africans, Indians, and the Spanish Frontier: 1784-1821
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Maureen MacLeod
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Harper
Dissertation: "A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth-Century France, 1799-1830.
Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern France, Modern Europe, Modern Russia, Middle Eastern Female Experience, and History of Science and Technology.
Meghan Martinez
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: M. Jones
Dissertation: Race Violence in the South and Historical Memory
Research Interests: African-American history
Sean McCafferty
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Creswell
Dissertation: Pseudo-gangs in Counter-insurgencies
Research Interests: Military History
Mike McDaniel
Ph.D. candidate, 1991-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Dennis Mills
Ph.D. candidate, 2000-
Major Professor: Grant
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Darryl Myers
Ph.D. candidate, 2006-
Major Professor: Davis
Dissertation: Philip J. Darlington, Jr. and Biogeography in the Twentieth Century
Research Interests: History of Science, esp. Biology; European history; Military history
Robert Ortiz
Ph.D. candidate, 2002-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Sherrie Reinhardt
Ph.D. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Herrera
Dissertation: 'Sacrifice their Hearts in a Holocaust of your Love': The Virgin Mary and the Mexican Independence War, 1810-1821
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America, Religion and Violence
Samiparna Samanta
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Davis
Dissertation: Science and Empire in Colonial India
Research Interests: History of Science, Medicine and Environment; Colonialism, South Asia
Alex Shelby
Ph.D. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Creswell
Dissertation: The Suez Crisis and the Egypt Committee
Research Interests: Diplomatic and Military history
Scott Shubitz
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Jumonville
Dissertation: Neo-Conservative political thought
Research Interests: 20th-century U.S. Conservatism, Intellectual history
Denise Spivey
Ph.D. candidate, 2004-
Major Professor: M. Jones
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Gregory Stern
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Creswell
Dissertation: Evolution of relations between Union/Confederate naval personnel and ironclad warship technology during the American Civil War
Research Interests: Military (esp. Naval) History, History of Science and Technology
Angie Tomlinson
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: M. Jones
Dissertation: World War II Conscientious Objectors
Research Interests: U.S. South
Jonathan Weber
Ph.D. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Herrera
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate, History/ Philosophy of Science, 2006-
Major Professor: Davis
Research Interests: History of Science, Intellectual History, Academic Culture Wars, Postmodernism, Insect Ecology, Digital Paradigms of Graphical Modeling
Daria Willis
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: M. Jones
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Ph.D. Students (pre-comps)
Anna Amundson
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Sinke
Dissertation: Protestant Social Service Agencies & Post-World War II Immigration
Research Interests: America in the World, Immigration, Religion, Gender
James Ashton
Ph.D. candidate, 1998-
Major Professor: J. Jones
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Bryan Banks
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: McMahon
Dissertation: French Perceptions of Protestantism: Enlightenment to the French Revolution
Research Interests: Religion, Text Technology, French History
Craig Biegel
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Doel
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Katy Boche
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Sinke
Dissertation: Social Dance in World War II
Research Interests: Dance History, US History, Public History
Richard Byington
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
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Mandy Clark
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Scott Craig
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Gray
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Research Interests: Early America, Colonial Australia, Convict Transportation
Ralph Criss
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Mike DeFeudis
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
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Research Interests: Napoleonic Military History
Gary DeSantis
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Mizelle
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Aaron Ducker
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Gellately
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Research Interests: Nazi Germany, Holocaust
Logan Edwards
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Jumonville
Dissertation: tentative - Rise of Segregation Academies in the Rural South
Research Interests: Civil Rights Movement, Southern Culture, Southern Religion
Alex Gurciullo
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Grant
Dissertation: Soviet Industry in the 1930s
Research Interests: World War II, Marxism
Benjamin Harper
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Jumonville
Dissertation: The US, Iran, and the USSR during the Azerbaijan Crisis
Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, Cold War Dynamics, U.S.-Middle Eastern Relations
Courtenay Harrold
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Upchurch
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Research Interests: Victorian Social History
Tiffany Hensley
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Frank
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Research Interests: Southeastern American Indians
David Holmes
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Tarah Luke
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
Dissertation: Contemporary American Opinion of Napoleon, 1796-1815
Research Interests: Contemporary and modern American opinion of Napoleon; Napoleonic propaganda
Joshua Meeks
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
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Research Interests: History of Science, French Revolution, Napoleon, Corsica
Hendry Miller
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Frank
Dissertation:
Research Interests: Old South, Georgia History, Honor and Masculinity
John Nelzen
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Gellately
Dissertation:
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Russia
Weston Nunn
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Grant
Dissertation: The Volunteer Army (1917-1921)
Research Interests: Russian Civil War, The White Armies, Late Russian Empire
Chris Osmar
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Gellately
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Research Interests: Modern Germany
Dallas Scouton-Johnson
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Stoltzfus
Dissertation: The Effectiveness of Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Rhetoric: Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Nazi Germany, Popular Opinion, Propaganda, Holocaust, Genocide; Modern Middle East: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Tibetan & Chinese Buddhism, Human Rights
Jonathan Shipe
Ph.D. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Upchurch
Dissertation: Marriage and Divorce within the British Military in mid-Victorian Great Britain
Research Interests: 19th Century British Cultural history, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Modern US history particularly the Progressive Era.
Ryan Stackhouse
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Gellately
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Research Interests: The Third Reich, Social Control in Totalitarian Societies, the Gestapo
Lauren Thompson
Ph.D. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: M. Jones
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Research Interests: American Civil War and Slavery, Social and Cultural Relations Among Former Slaves and Whites in Wartime South, Fraternization Between African-American Soldiers and Union Soldiers
Mark Vital
Ph.D. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Robert Watkins
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Upchurch
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Patrick Welsh
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Frank
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Research Interests: Native American Sovereignty
Elizabeth Worley
Ph.D. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Sinke
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Andrew Zwilling
Ph.D. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Gray
Dissertation:
Research Interests: U.S. Civil War, Early America
M.A. Students
Kim Beaver
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Garretson
Research Interests: Middle East, Crusades, Medieval Europe, the Levant
Rob Bendus
M.A. candidate, 2011
Major Professor: Wynot
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Jessica Brown
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Jones, M.
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Tarin Burger
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Sinke
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Matthew Burkhalter
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Williamson
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Witt Callaway
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Upchurch
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Ryan Cunningham
M.A. candidate, 2004-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Amy Drewel
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Kelley Duda
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Sinke
Research Interests: Gender History, World War II, Cold War, Florida
Jessica Gargrave
M.A. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Stoltzfus
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April Gibbs
M.A. candidate, 2002-
Major Professor: Frank
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Corey Gray
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Hakan Gungor
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Garretson
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Samantha Hoekstra
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Jones, M.
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Kevin Johnson
M.A. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Avina
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Tess Koncick
M.A. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Erin Kritzer
M.A. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Jeffrey Kusterbeck
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Grant
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Jared McBee
M.A. candidate, 2005-
Major Professor: Grant
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Eric Miller
M.A. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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John Morris
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Jones, M.
Research Interests: Reconstruction, Civil Rights Era, Early America/Constitutional Period, 19th Century American Politics
Jonathan Moury
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Harper
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Matt Munley
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Jones, M.
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Chris O'Neal
M.A. candidate, 2002-
Major Professor: Grant
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Stephen Oleszek
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: Jones, M.
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Jamie Peeters
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Upchurch
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Pat Perrella
M.A. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
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Marah Rivera-Gonzalez
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Amanda Rowlands
M.A. candidate, 2006-
Major Professor: Stoltzfus
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Kristie Ryan
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Jumonville
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Julie Sawnor
M.A. candidate, 2011-
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Rebecca Shriver
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Creswell
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Allyce Smith
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Blaufarb
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Richard Soash
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Koslow
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Jennifer Sullivan
M.A. candidate, 2008-
Major Professor: Frank
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Kevin Uhler
M.A. candidate, 2010-
Major Professor: James P. Jones
Research Interests: Gilded Age Political History, Early American Diplomatic Relations
David Valladares
M.A. candidate, 2007-
Major Professor: Jones, J.
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Rachel Wacks
M.A. candidate, 2011-
Major Professor: Piehler
Research Interests: 20th Century United States, War and Society, Women and Gender
William Zimmermann
M.A. candidate, 2009-
Major Professor: Stoltzfus
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